🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-29
This edition dives into Tuesday's unexpected state funding and the future of machine creation.
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Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🏙️ + 💰 Typically, a Tuesday would be about funding a startup — but this time it is a state and it might not be the last.
Techmeme: Washington state lawmakers pass new taxes amid a record budget deficit, targeting Amazon, Microsoft, and others to raise $9B+; Governor Ferguson can now sign (Anna Edgerton/Bloomberg)
By Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤖 + 💰 Not to get all McLuhan-ish but… it is sometimes said that humans are unique in that we build machines that build other machines. Welp…
Techmeme: P-1 AI, which is developing AI engineering agent Archie and hopes that AI can eventually design future complex machines, emerges from stealth with a $23M seed (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
By Sharon Goldman / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
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